YESS 2.0, a tunable platform for enzyme evolution, yields highly active TEV protease variants

CA Denard, C Paresi, R Yaghi, N McGinnis… - ACS Synthetic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Here we describe YESS 2.0, a highly versatile version of the yeast endoplasmic
sequestration screening (YESS) system suitable for engineering and characterizing …

Profiling protease specificity: Combining yeast ER sequestration screening (YESS) with next generation sequencing

Q Li, L Yi, KH Hoi, P Marek, G Georgiou… - ACS chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
An enzyme engineering technology involving yeast endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
sequestration screening (YESS) has been recently developed. Here, a new method is …

Characterization of aromatic residue–controlled protein retention in the endoplasmic reticulum of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

M Mei, C Zhai, X Li, Y Zhou, W Peng, L Ma… - Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ASBMB
An endoplasmic reticulum (ER) retention sequence (ERS) is a characteristic short sequence
that mediates protein retention in the ER of eukaryotic cells. However, little is known about …

Quantitative analysis of the substrate specificity of human rhinovirus 3C protease and exploration of its substrate recognition mechanisms

X Fan, X Li, Y Zhou, M Mei, P Liu, J Zhao… - ACS Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Human rhinovirus 3C protease (HRV 3C-P) is a high-value commercial cysteine protease
that could specifically recognize the short peptide sequence of LEVLFQ↓ GP. In here, a …

Endoplasmic reticulum sequestration empowers phosphorylation profiling on the yeast surface

J Ezagui, B Russell, Y Mairena, LA Stern - AIChE Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cells sense cues in their surrounding environment, turning extracellular stimuli into
intracellular responses. Transient posttranslational modifications, such as phosphorylation …

Prompting Fab yeast surface display efficiency by ER retention and molecular chaperon co-expression

M Mei, J Li, S Wang, KB Lee, BL Iverson… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
For antibody discovery and engineering, yeast surface display (YSD) of antigen-binding
fragments (Fabs) and coupled fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) provide intact …

A combinatorial strategy for HRV 3C protease engineering to achieve the N-terminal free cleavage

M Mei, X Fan, Y Zhou, F Zhang, G Zhang, L Yi - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Human rhinovirus 3C protease (HRV 3Csingle bondP) has a high specificity against the
substrate of LEVLFQ↓ G at P1′ site, which plays an important role in biotechnology and …

Large-scale structure-based prediction and identification of novel protease substrates using computational protein design

MA Pethe, AB Rubenstein, SD Khare - Journal of molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Characterizing the substrate specificity of protease enzymes is critical for illuminating the
molecular basis of their diverse and complex roles in a wide array of biological processes …

Computational design of N‐linked glycans for high throughput epitope profiling

PJ Greisen, L Yi, R Zhou, J Zhou, E Johansson… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient identification of epitopes is crucial for drug discovery and design as it enables the
selection of optimal epitopes, expansion of lead antibody diversity, and verification of …

Tyrosine Phosphorylation Screening on the Yeast Surface by Magnetic Bead Selection and FACS

J Ezagui, LA Stern - Genotype Phenotype Coupling: Methods and …, 2023 - Springer
The ability to understand and characterize phosphorylation is important to the study of cell
signaling and to synthetic biology approaches. Current methods for characterizing kinase …